No Artest, no Miller, no place to go and no way to get there for Sacramento.

Hakuna matata.

It means “no worries” for the Nuggets.

Worry.

Kings beat Jokers Saturday night.

As Kings coach Reggie Theus was entering the locker room afterward, he said to his players: “Way to beat a horse(expletive) team!”

The Nuggets must be forced to agree with Theus’ eloquent assessment following that mess.

George Karl should have stolen his postgame speech from a former Indianapolis Colts coach: “Playoffs? Don’t talk about playoffs. Are you kidding me? Playoffs. I’m just hoping we can win a game, another game.”

Instead, Karl said: “It was going to be one of those games where we tried to outscore them, and we didn’t score enough. . . . This is not the time to point the blame on anyone.”

I will. Blame all of them, including Karl and especially J.R. Smith.

Playoffs?

Of the Nuggets’ eight losses at home, this was the most dreadful and distressing — and unforgivable.

The Nuggets may just miss being in the playoffs because of their toxic waste dump on Saturday night. There was no fizz in The Can.

With time and the Nuggets’ chances of winning running out, Sacramento’s Mikki Moore flopped.

It was not the worst flop of the game.

All the Nuggets had to do was show up. Kings forward Ron Artest didn’t play because of a sprained left thumb. Center Brad Miller didn’t play because of a lower leg strain. Kevin Martin (the other K-Mart) almost didn’t play because of nausea.

The Nuggets didn’t play because of brain drain.

No show.

Don’t blame this one on the suspension of Kenyon Martin or the officials or the moon or the Rockies’ game or the NCAA Final Four.

Hold the Nuggets fully accountable.

Now, they have to win at Golden State, or at Utah, or at both, to reach the playoffs.

Otherwise, the last two home games will be the last two times the Nuggets are together. Owner Stan Kroenke will not accept another flop season by the Nuggets. Everyone will be held accountable — from coach George Karl to guard Allen Iverson to forward Carmelo Anthony to center Marcus Camby to Yakhouba Diawara, who gets on the court for the Nuggets about as often as you and I do.

The Nuggets had been rolling along pleasantly, without a defeat at home since Feb. 25 — and that one was to NBA power Detroit, and Karl was home sick to his stomach.

He was sicker to his stomach by the Nuggets’ weak, funky performance against the Kings.

They didn’t act interested. The Nuggets turned an uninspired 11-point lead in the first quarter into a five-point deficit in the second quarter.

By now, the Kings, missing a couple of kings, became fascinated, and it helped them when the Nuggets went into their “What? Me Play D” mode.

The Nuggets also were busy watching the scoreboard — not for their own score, but for what was happening to North Carolina in the second game of the NCAA semifinals.

Publicly, Theus said he told the Kings that the Nuggets had “to make shots to beat us, we are not coming out of the zone defense.

“Playing the spoiler keeps us motivated. When all is said and done, our guys played harder.”

Sure enough.

The Nuggets didn’t stop the Kings and they couldn’t shoot over the Kings.

Smith, who has been mostly sensational lately for the Nuggets, returned to his old, sad-sack game by making just 4-of-14 shots and 2-of-11 from the 3-point arc and 3-of-7 from the free-throw line. He also had three fouls and two turnovers in 15 minutes. He was awful.

And he was the one taking the shot at the buzzer to tie.

Same guy did it in the Nuggets’ last loss here. He took the 3-pointer then and was fouled. He didn’t make the three free throws. This time Smith flung an off-balanced 3-pointer that bounced around and off.

Anthony, who has been accused of not taking a game over in the fourth quarter, tried his very, very best down the stretch, hitting two 3s, scoring on a drive, making two free throws and bringing the Nuggets to within one with a dunk.

So, does he get the ball for the tying shot? He couldn’t take over at the end. Nobody gave him the ball.

Smith was busy hurling, if you get my drift.

Iverson was honest. “As serious as this game was and the magnitude of this game, there is no reason for it. . . . I saw the slippage. I thought we weren’t there mentally. There is no reason for this team to come in here and beat us on our own floor.”